PegasoTemplar Knight beginning of XIV Century

[Tommi]

Pegaso Models

Templar Knight beginning of XIV Century
Article 54-901
Sculptor: Gianni La Rocca
Size 54mm, White Metal
Picture show below show the kit painted by Danilo Cartacci

This was another one of the kits that I fell in love with when I first saw it and just had to get it to add to my ever growing collection of Holy Land Knights.

The kit comprises of 25 well cast metal parts as well as a nicely finished wooden base and white metal plaque to paint and attach to the base.

Laying out all the parts for inspection shows the high quality of the castings with an outstanding level of detail on each part. Mould lines are very minimal to non existent, only a small amount of work needed for cleaning up.

The horse comes in the usual two sections with the head and neck in a single piece. The kit I purchased has a very sharp steel pin sticking out or the back right left hoof which I stabbed myself on several times. The heraldic crosses are already embossed on the horse. All parts show a high level of detail.

I part assembled the horse by just pushing it all together just to check the joints, no glue used. It looks like very little filling or sanding will be need on most of the horse.

Most of the joint around where the neck meets the body will only require a small amount of filler and will blend into the folds in the drapery of the cloth folds.

The main torso of the rider is made up of separate upper and lower parts with the head and arms being separate pieces. A test dry run of the part show a very exact fit of all the parts with no fill required. All parts show the usual high level of detail that you come to expect from Pegaso.

Everything drops into place with great ease; it really does start to look very nice the more that is added to it.

The flag comes with the heraldry already embossed which will make painting a lot easier for those painters that feel a bit nervous about attempting to paint heraldry, (me included).

The kit also have this very nice wooden base to mount your finished figure on. There is also a white metal plaque to paint and glue to the front.

This is an excellent kit with all parts fitting together exceptionally well and a good level of detail on all parts. Its going to be a joy to paint. There are colour pictures on the box that can be used as a painting guide and further higher definition pictures can be seen on the Pegaso web site. There is also a text version of a painting guide included with the kit.

http://www.pegasomodels.com/details_en.asp?code=54-901

Highly recommended to anyone who likes painting mounted figures of this period. I cant wait to get started on this one.

Tommi

 

[Guy]

Excellent review Tommi. I will have to add this to my "want list". I hadn't paid it much attention until your review. Thanks.

 

[John Bowery]

Likewise,
Cheers
John

 

[Bad91Fellow]

But I'm not sure if one thing is right: the heraldy. It is the heraly of the kingdom of Jerusalem, but in the early 14th Century this kingdom wasn't existing anymore (the last town in the "holy" land, Akko, was lost to the saracens in ~1290). Maybe the heraldic was already excisting years later but I'm not sure about it. And the date "early 14th century" is also not very accurate because the templers were arrested in 1307. the "early 14th century" is then from 1300-1307. But this description is already ok. But the Heraldic...I don't know.

Lennart

 

[megroot]

Tommi,

I had this a few month's on my wish list. Get it off because i thought that the heraldic was painted. Now, thanks to your revieuw it is back and well on top. I really thank you for this. Didn't know that the heraldic was embossed.

Marc

 

[Tommi]

Hi Guy,John, Lennart & Marc

Thanks for your comments, glad it has been of some use.

The comments from Lennart are quite interesting and defiantly require some further investigation unless anyone on the forum knows the answer.

I was looking for a couple of more 54mm figures to go with it but am struggling to pinpoint an exact moment in time, I am guessing around 1300, any suggestions on a more accurate period in time or any other figures within the same time frame?

Tommi

 

[Brad S]

I think Lennart is correct concerning if this is a Templar or not. Could it be painted differently and be re-labeled as a Tuetonic knight?

Brad

 

[Bad91Fellow]

The figure can be used as a teutonic knight, but the flag is quite different. here is an example, a flag of the High-Master of the Teutonic Order (teutonic knights):

Here is something about the flaggs of the teutonic order, written by volker preuß, flaggenlexikon.de:

The flag of the Teutonic Order has her origin in the in 1198 this order awarded white robe with a black cross. The robe was corroborated after resistance by the Order of the Temple howewer not until the year 1221 by the pope. The flag of the high-master stylizes the to the Teutonic Order awarded golden cross of Yerusalem, and showes in the middle the coat of arms of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation.
Should the black cross of the Teutonic Order get depicted heraldically correct as "bar cross" (later named "German Cross", too) on a white blazon, then must the width of one crossbar amount 2/7 of the shield's width.

maybe you can remove the four little crosses of the pegaso flag and add the little shield with the coat of arms of the holy roman empire of german nation with magic sculp for example.

Lennart